-Says Oshiomhole is trying to subvert Nigerian Constitution through his third term ambition
As the Edo State governorship elections gather momentum every day accusations and counter accusations, allegations and back stabbing have trailed the campaign messages by the two leading political parties, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressive Congress (APC).
The latest in the series came from the Deputy Governor of the state, Comrade Philip Shaibu who alleged former Governor and Former National Chairman, of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, of attempting to seek a third term in office through his surrogate, Pastor Osagie Ize-iyamu, the APC candidate.
Shuaibu also accused the former governor of trying to subvert laid down democratic tenets enshrined in the Nigeria’s Constitution by seeking a third term through a tricky manner.
In a statement by the deputy governor’s media aide, Mr Benjamin Atu, said Comrade Oshiomhole is displaying blind compassion with a specific pledge to return the state to the path of backwardness where failed institutions and individuals will be more powerful than government institutions with an analogue system of operations, noting that Technological development has since left Oshiomhole behind in the scheme of things.
Shuaibu said Edo people need a new kind of politics and policies that reflect the best value of life and Politics that focuses on bringing people together to work for the common good.
He said the Obaseki, Shuaibu candidacy of the PDP have displayed determination to end the culture of government that habitually failed to stimulate investment; provide massive employment for the youth and failed to reduce poverty and hardship in the land.
The statement further posited that Edo State has a choice between policies of the heart by Governor Godwin Obaseki and policies of the head as currently been propagated by those he called enemies of the State.
Shuaibu stressing that the people of Edo State subscribed voluntarily to the principle of Obaseki because they have seen these principles at work all over the State and cannot risk the future of Edo State with a man’s shrunken aspirations.
He further maintained that Governor Godwin Obaseki is not talking rhetorics like Oshiomhole and his godson are doing, adding that the PDP campaign is based on the affirmation of what the present Obaseki Government has done and still capable of doing, by drawing its strength from the masses to deal with all the states vulnerabilities
